· Public charity
Fairfield County Sports Commission Inc
The Commission promotes fitness and an active, healthy lifestyle and personal development through sports.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $35,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $47,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dovetail SIP | $10,000 |
| Brakette's | $5,000 |
| Marist Student Financial Services | $5,000 |
| Kids Helping Kids | $5,000 |
| EJ's Heart | $5,000 |
| Chelsea Piers Foundation | $2,500 |
| Chelsea Piers Scholarship Fund | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KHKIDS HELPING KIDS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +21%
- TCTHE CARVER INC4× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +132%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC3× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +36%
- BPBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICHone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Youth Sports activities
To provide youth with sports, educational and civic direction helping them build the character and self-esteem they need to reach their full potential and value in society.
Leap empowers young people to be leaders who create a nurturing community for children in need. we believe that families in all neighborhoods deserve access to learning opportunities that inspire a broad world view and encourage young…
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
The program was formed to foster, promote, encourage and support the playing of soccer in the city of rye, new york.
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Teach teamwork and leadership
Flow provides the mentorship, resources, and community support that allow young athletes to thrive across every field, court and classroom. Our purpose at Flow Athletics is to prepare the next generation of student-athletes for life on and…
Develop local youth in soccer skills and team play
Harlem lacrosse's mission is to empower the children who are most at risk for academic decline and dropout to rise above their challenges and reach their full potential. harlem lacrosse inspires children to dream about tomorrow while…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cardinal Shehan Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KIDS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOVETAIL SIP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
- Who funds BRAKETTES INC ↗
- Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY INTERSCHOLASTI ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FERRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CMAK SANDY HOOK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN YOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT YOUTH LACROSSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fairfield County Sports Commission Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.